May 012015
- Physician Specialty Google Autocomplete: These are so perfect!
- Can 80 Yelpers be wrong?: “The garlic-cream sauce draped over flabby, overcooked cheese ravioli was chunky and lukewarm; if there was garlic in the sauce, only a beagle could detect it. The gnocchi was a mountain of gluey pasta covered in a meat sauce many degrees shy of hot; the gnocchi sat on the plate, solid and immovable, as if molded from clay. The lobster ravioli came stuffed with a stringy mixture speckled with tiny dices of the advertised crustacean but tasting more like crab sticks.”
- 10 Uncommon Habits of Extraordinarily Productive People: Some good suggestions here!
- Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever: What a story… and what a woman! Thank goodness that the world has changed!
- Jason Warnock Identified as Mystery Man Who Rescued Driver From Cliff’s Edge: WOW.
- The Ellen Show: The Unbelievably Hilarious Amy Schumer: Hysterical.
- Economist Deirdre McCloskey: playing both sides of the street: “Some time after her gender change McCloskey was in a meeting of economists — all men except for her — and made a point that everyone ignored. “Two minutes later a guy named George made an identical point and all the men turned to him and said “That’s a great point George, you ought to write an article about that” and I said to myself “Yes! They are treating me like a woman. It was the first, and I should say the last, time I enjoyed that experience.” She sounds like a pretty interesting woman.
- An “easy” answer to the infamous Monty Hall problem: I’ve been thinking and reading about the Monty Hall problem lately… and I’ve been unsatisfied with the standard explanations. I like Sasha’s take here.
- The Book of Nature: It’s an 1861 manual on sex and procreation… which is fascinating.
